Special shrimp season to close
~A special shrimp season that opened last week to allow fishermen a shot at making a catch before waters become contaminated with oil will close Tuesday.
Public barred from turtle necropsies~National Marine Fisheries Service, part of NOAA, has shut down access to the necropsies of the turtles found dead on Mississippi beaches due to an "ongoing investigation." ~Hat Tweet~Gambit
Florida Gov. Crist extends state of emergency to Sarasota, 12 more coastal counties
~With an oil slick and tar balls just 50 miles offshore, Florida's top environmental official and other politicians say the state is bracing for pollution and damage to hit the state's beaches and its oyster, bait and sport fisheries.
Groups Partner To Fight Oil Spill On Ala. Coast~Governor Bob Riley confirmed this weekend that 80% of containment booms have failed to slow or contain the oil spill. The booms litter the beaches where they were no match for wind and waves.
Interior Department Postpones Safety Awards Luncheon That Included BP ~"The ongoing situation with the Transocean Deepwater Horizon drilling accident has caused the MMS to dedicate considerable resources to the successful resolution of this event, which will conflict with holding this ceremony next week," the statement said.
DOJ Investigation of BP Failure is “Absolutely Necessary” Says Former Prosecutor in Blow-Out Prevention Cover-Up Case
Monday, May 3, 2010
Congratulations Mitch Landrieu 70th Mayor of New Orleans!~Moon Landrieu is slated to administer his son's oath of office jointly with former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Pascal Calogero and state Appeal Court Judge Edwin Lombard during a 10 a.m. ceremony at Gallier Hall. Geaux Mitch'Mo!
Mitch Landrieu and Levees.org
~Editilla Crowtellas~Makes sense to me, considering Mitch'mo was quick enough on the uptake to staff his Flood Safety and Coastal Restoration Task Force with 3 of them!
BP voids fishermen's cleanup contracts in La., cites legal mix-up~Humid Beings
~David Kinnaird, BP’s liaison to Plaquemines Parish, spent Saturday night ripping up the contracts that hundreds of local commercial fishermen had signed to work for BP cleaning up the slick that could wipe out the local seafood industry.
It’s not that BP didn’t want to hire them. And there is nothing these fishermen would hesitate to do to save the bayous, canals and rivers where they and their families have made a living for generations – except this: Sign a contract with BP saying they will “hold harmless and indemnify … release, waive and forever discharge the BP Exploration and Production, Inc., its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, regular employees, and independent contractors … from all claims and damages” arising from helping to clean up the mess that BP has made.
Gulf fishermen win legal battle against unfair BP confidentiality agreements~Facing South
MS Gov. Haley Babar says Coast may be spared!
~That’s right: more than 6 million gallons spilled into the Gulf of Mexico so far. This, and other radar images that SkyTruth is getting, confirm what they’ve seen on the NASA/MODIS images so far, and support their conservative calculations showing that in the first week of this spill at least 6 million gallons have entered the Gulf. That’s a spill rate of at least 850,000 gallons (20,000 barrels) per day.
~Governor Babar issued this statement at a press conference yesterday: "Well I stand up next to a mountain, I chop it down with the edge of my hand. Well I stand next to a mountain, I chop it down with the edge of my hand. I pick up all the tiny pieces and make an island, might even raise just a little sand.
Yeah 'Cos I'm a Voodoo Child! God knows I'm a Voodoo Child!"
Gulf Coast town has little to do but wait for BP Oil Disaster
~Gus Holliman has spent the last two days riding the beaches in Pass Christian, hoping not to find dead animals in the wake of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
On Saturday the sea turtles started washing up on shore. On Sunday, the turtles were joined by dead catfish, horseshoe crabs, and birds: a duck, a pelican and a seagull.
~Louisiana Governor's Office of Homeland Security~MS Scientists, volunteers prepare for marine animal rescue effort in BP Oil Disaster
~Oil predicted to hit Florida shores by midweek
~some residents helped clean up, while others fished, surfed or indulged in seafood uncertain when they would able to again.
P&G's Dawn to help fight oil spill
Loop Current and winds
~Bobby Deskins
Gulf oil spill: Alabama governor calls in National Guard
~American Bird Conservancy maps the risk areas
At Fourchon, BP builds contain- ment boxes to place over spill
Relief Well Was Used to Halt Australian Spill
~The Australian accident, known as the Montara spill, began Aug. 21 with a blowout of high-pressure oil similar to the one in the gulf. With the well spewing 17,000 to 85,000 gallons per day, precious weeks passed before the relief wells were started.
When efforts got under way, the first four relief wells — drilled on Oct. 6, 13, 17 and 24 — missed the original well. A fifth well finally intersected the original on Nov. 1, and about 3,400 barrels of heavy mud were pumped into the base of the original well. The spewing oil finally stopped Nov. 3 — more than 10 weeks after the original explosion.
BP Disaster Threatens Gulf of Mexico Oil, Gas Operations ~Bloomberg~The growing oil slick fed by an underwater leak in a BP Plc well in the Gulf of Mexico may threaten production, shipping and refining of oil and natural gas in Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana.
U.S. Gulf Coast refining not disrupted by BP Oil Disaster
Was the Gulf Oil Spill an Act of War? You Betcha
~Randall Amster~Finally, we come to the most likely culprit in all of this, and a sure sign that indeed this is an act of war. Wherever Halliburton goes, so goes the war machine, and vice versa. From no-bid and no-account contracts in Iraq (and post-Katrina New Orleans, by the way) to a massive corporate presence in the Gulf region, these folks seem to have an acute capacity for making a buck on cataclysms of all sorts. Perhaps more to the point, they appear to be at the nexus of most disaster zones, including the erstwhile Bush Presidency and now the BP Oil Disaster.
Record-breaking Nashville flood displaces thousands
~Mayor declares state of emergency; levee begins leaking
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Dimanche
LA Seafood Group Bows Down
Statement from Harlon Pearce, Chairman,
Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board:
“The precautionary closure of the federal waters off the coast of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and part of Florida is a necessary action to insure the citizens of the United States and abroad that our seafood will maintain the highest level of quality we expect from the Gulf of Mexico. As chairman of the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board, I applaud Dr. Lubchenco’s decision to insure everyone that all seafood in the Gulf is of the highest quality and is safe to eat.”
Statement from Ewell Smith, Executive Director,
Louisiana Seafood Board: “We Support NOAA’s precautionary closure of the affected area so that the American consumer has confidence that the seafood they eat is safe. It is also very important to underscore the fact that this closure is only the affected area of the Gulf of Mexico, not the entire Gulf. The state waters of Louisiana West of the Mississippi River are still open and the seafood coming from that area is safe. That portion of waters represents about 77% of Louisiana seafood production of a 2.4 billion dollar economic impact to the state.”
Special thanks to Georgianne Nienaber for sending these updates!
~Editilla Notellas~ INCIDENT COMMAND misleads in their public relations press release that this statement represents a Group of Leaders when in fact both of these men belong to the same group as we showed in links. There is no growing list of Seafood Industry Leaders lining up to make things any easier in court for the Bastard Culprits of this Disaster. Sinn Féin.
Ship of State Sinks Along With Truth in Deepwater Horizon Disaster~Georgianne Nienaber
~Initially, being an old-school journalist, this writer was willing to give the "unified command" of the Coast Guard, NOAA, British Petroleum (BP), State and Federal officials the benefit of the doubt. Even when officials in charge of the staging area for boom and clean-up material on Woolmarket Road in Biloxi painted a yellow line on the driveway, across which no media could cross, the journalist in me thought, "Well it is private property, so it is within their right to do so."
Now that the catastrophe has become big news, and satellite trucks rented by world media are gathering like hyenas for the kill in Venice, LA, "unified command" has decidedly changed its tune. Recognizing that BIG MEDIA views firsthand video and photos of oil lapping the shore with the same enthusiasm reserved for exclusive photos of Lindsay Lohan coming out of rehab, or Tiger Woods' mea culpa for bad behavior, media is now "invited" to embed.
Fishing, oil industries drive Gulf economy but at odds after spill
Safety Device Questioned in '04
~Hat Tweet~ NOLAFemmes
Statement from Harlon Pearce, Chairman,
Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board:
“The precautionary closure of the federal waters off the coast of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and part of Florida is a necessary action to insure the citizens of the United States and abroad that our seafood will maintain the highest level of quality we expect from the Gulf of Mexico. As chairman of the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board, I applaud Dr. Lubchenco’s decision to insure everyone that all seafood in the Gulf is of the highest quality and is safe to eat.”
Statement from Ewell Smith, Executive Director,
Louisiana Seafood Board: “We Support NOAA’s precautionary closure of the affected area so that the American consumer has confidence that the seafood they eat is safe. It is also very important to underscore the fact that this closure is only the affected area of the Gulf of Mexico, not the entire Gulf. The state waters of Louisiana West of the Mississippi River are still open and the seafood coming from that area is safe. That portion of waters represents about 77% of Louisiana seafood production of a 2.4 billion dollar economic impact to the state.”
Special thanks to Georgianne Nienaber for sending these updates!
~Editilla Notellas~ INCIDENT COMMAND misleads in their public relations press release that this statement represents a Group of Leaders when in fact both of these men belong to the same group as we showed in links. There is no growing list of Seafood Industry Leaders lining up to make things any easier in court for the Bastard Culprits of this Disaster. Sinn Féin.
Ship of State Sinks Along With Truth in Deepwater Horizon Disaster~Georgianne Nienaber
~Initially, being an old-school journalist, this writer was willing to give the "unified command" of the Coast Guard, NOAA, British Petroleum (BP), State and Federal officials the benefit of the doubt. Even when officials in charge of the staging area for boom and clean-up material on Woolmarket Road in Biloxi painted a yellow line on the driveway, across which no media could cross, the journalist in me thought, "Well it is private property, so it is within their right to do so."
Now that the catastrophe has become big news, and satellite trucks rented by world media are gathering like hyenas for the kill in Venice, LA, "unified command" has decidedly changed its tune. Recognizing that BIG MEDIA views firsthand video and photos of oil lapping the shore with the same enthusiasm reserved for exclusive photos of Lindsay Lohan coming out of rehab, or Tiger Woods' mea culpa for bad behavior, media is now "invited" to embed.
Fishing, oil industries drive Gulf economy but at odds after spill
Safety Device Questioned in '04
~Hat Tweet~ NOLAFemmes
Obama press secretary says the President wants to do everything `humanly possible' on spill... --butt stopped short on specifics.
~Explaining Obama's visit after the April 20 oil platform explosion, Gibbs said, "He's here today to make sure that we are continuing to do all that is humanly possible."
But if your a fisherman with a problem, don't call us call BP.
~"That's something that hasn't been tried before,
and I think it goes to show that we are trying everything that we know and even some things that haven't been tried before," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters.
~Editilla just watched the President live, and here is what he said: "blablablabla bla bla blalba bla bla bla, yadda yadda bla bla.. we're doing everything humanly possible and wont stop doing the it until it's done bla bla blaaa bleet bleet yada yada." Well, in so many words...
This is getting ridiculous. What our President basically said, by Not Saying Anything Of Value At All, is that we are fucked in Louisiana for the next 30 days-30 years. BP is off the hook because they aren't going to handle the Millions of lawsuits Americans are filing as you read poor Editilla's sad report.
We won't see a thin oil coated dime from these pirates. Get Real.
I mean, we are way fucked. His'O'ner had only one thing to tell us: "BP is going to pay for this." Bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit.
Like Exxon paid-up right off the bat for the Valdez? Bullshit.
Dear Mr President Bulshit and You Know It, we are fucked.
Ya'heard me, Mr. President? I repeat: You Are Pumping Bullshit.
You know it and now we know it. I could see it in your eyes when you made that "joke" about Louisiana Drizzle. Cute, Slick Barry.
Those are Tears, Mr. President. Louisiana Tears you smeared.
Save your Jokey Thingy fo'da Correspondents' Dinner Crowd.
The US Government has No Plan but to let BP handle it, as well as run loose on the news media doing their reverse public relations. This precedent you are setting of Kissing Their Ass will not do --not even for your Single Presidency. That's right, you are one and done. If you can't stand stronger than this for the American People when a Foreign Company so badly screws us in Our Soul, then it is time for us to start shopping for another actually real progressive candidate who kisses corporate ass only half as much.
I can tell already by the way you are letting your campaign crew run this show. You still think this is a PR problem.
The Grim Truth would have been so much better than this dull recognition, this dawning of viscous deja vu that we already heard Bush say basically the same thing in Jackson Square:
"Your government stands ready to do what ever it takes for however long it takes..." No, you feckless politico, unless you get off your ass and show some testicular fortitude, you will not be allowed to use This Man-Made Disaster to keep yourself in office any more than did The Decider That Other Man-Made Disaster.
5 state attorney generals talk legal strategy with oil spill
Blessing of the boats a sad affair this year in wake of BP Oil Kill
The Crude Erl Elephant
~Back of Town
Sarah Palin Is Very Sad About Entire Southern Coast Of America Being Destroyed ~Wonkette
~Explaining Obama's visit after the April 20 oil platform explosion, Gibbs said, "He's here today to make sure that we are continuing to do all that is humanly possible."
But if your a fisherman with a problem, don't call us call BP.
~"That's something that hasn't been tried before,~Editilla just watched the President live, and here is what he said: "blablablabla bla bla blalba bla bla bla, yadda yadda bla bla.. we're doing everything humanly possible and wont stop doing the it until it's done bla bla blaaa bleet bleet yada yada." Well, in so many words...
This is getting ridiculous. What our President basically said, by Not Saying Anything Of Value At All, is that we are fucked in Louisiana for the next 30 days-30 years. BP is off the hook because they aren't going to handle the Millions of lawsuits Americans are filing as you read poor Editilla's sad report.
We won't see a thin oil coated dime from these pirates. Get Real.
I mean, we are way fucked. His'O'ner had only one thing to tell us: "BP is going to pay for this." Bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit.
Like Exxon paid-up right off the bat for the Valdez? Bullshit.
Dear Mr President Bulshit and You Know It, we are fucked.
Ya'heard me, Mr. President? I repeat: You Are Pumping Bullshit.
You know it and now we know it. I could see it in your eyes when you made that "joke" about Louisiana Drizzle. Cute, Slick Barry.
Those are Tears, Mr. President. Louisiana Tears you smeared.
Save your Jokey Thingy fo'da Correspondents' Dinner Crowd.
The US Government has No Plan but to let BP handle it, as well as run loose on the news media doing their reverse public relations. This precedent you are setting of Kissing Their Ass will not do --not even for your Single Presidency. That's right, you are one and done. If you can't stand stronger than this for the American People when a Foreign Company so badly screws us in Our Soul, then it is time for us to start shopping for another actually real progressive candidate who kisses corporate ass only half as much.
I can tell already by the way you are letting your campaign crew run this show. You still think this is a PR problem.
The Grim Truth would have been so much better than this dull recognition, this dawning of viscous deja vu that we already heard Bush say basically the same thing in Jackson Square:
"Your government stands ready to do what ever it takes for however long it takes..." No, you feckless politico, unless you get off your ass and show some testicular fortitude, you will not be allowed to use This Man-Made Disaster to keep yourself in office any more than did The Decider That Other Man-Made Disaster.
5 state attorney generals talk legal strategy with oil spill
Blessing of the boats a sad affair this year in wake of BP Oil Kill
The Crude Erl Elephant
~Back of Town
Sarah Palin Is Very Sad About Entire Southern Coast Of America Being Destroyed ~Wonkette
NOAA Closes Commercial and Recreational Fishing in Oil- Affected Portion of BP Disaster
~INCIDIDENT COMMAND~ NOAA is restricting fishing for a minimum of ten days in federal waters most affected by the BP oil spill, largely between Louisiana state waters at the mouth of the Mississippi River to waters off Florida’s Pensacola Bay. The closure is effective immediately. Fishermen who wish to contact BP about a claim should call (800) 440-0858.
~Editilla Notellas~This INCIDENT COMMAND SITE is full of Many Bullshit Links that Do Not Provide Real Time Info as if it is a PR Gimmick to give the impression of timely updates.
NOAA said fishers who wish to put in a claim for damages should contact BP, the rig owner, at 800.440.0858.
Katrina Natural Disaster Didn't Work So Now BP Exec Tries Apollo 13 Movie Spin!
~Editilla Gotta Axe~ How'z that Drill Baby Drill Thingy workin'out for'ya?
Slicked and Slabbed – “big oil” follows “big insurance” and delivers another blow to Coast economy
Built to Spill
~Pitsburg Alpha to Omega
~INCIDIDENT COMMAND~ NOAA is restricting fishing for a minimum of ten days in federal waters most affected by the BP oil spill, largely between Louisiana state waters at the mouth of the Mississippi River to waters off Florida’s Pensacola Bay. The closure is effective immediately. Fishermen who wish to contact BP about a claim should call (800) 440-0858.
~Editilla Notellas~This INCIDENT COMMAND SITE is full of Many Bullshit Links that Do Not Provide Real Time Info as if it is a PR Gimmick to give the impression of timely updates.
NOAA said fishers who wish to put in a claim for damages should contact BP, the rig owner, at 800.440.0858.Katrina Natural Disaster Didn't Work So Now BP Exec Tries Apollo 13 Movie Spin!
~Editilla Gotta Axe~ How'z that Drill Baby Drill Thingy workin'out for'ya?
Slicked and Slabbed – “big oil” follows “big insurance” and delivers another blow to Coast economy
Built to Spill
~Pitsburg Alpha to Omega
Parish plots to keep oil out
~Amy Wold
Oil booms that were placed in preparation of the looming oil spill from last week's collapse and spill of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig float along the shoreline Saturday, May 1, 2010, along the South Pass, south of Venice, Louisiana. Photo: Eric Gay/AP
~The parish’s plan is to pre-stage booms on movable platforms at 11 locations on both sides of the Mississippi River. At each staging location there would be a number of boats that could quickly deploy the booms if heavy oil starts to head in that direction, Nungesser said. The booms would be deployed between marsh sections, which would act as additional booms, he said. The plan would mean some cleanup would have to be done, but it could keep oil out of interior marshes where it would be almost impossible to clean up, Nungesser said.
~At a news conference Saturday, Jindal again said he is concerned whether BP has the ability to respond to the disaster. And he added that he no longer plans to wait for BP or the federal government to protect the state. “We are past the point of waiting for cleanup plans from BP and the incident commander,” he said, referring to the U.S. Coast Guard.
Instead, the state is creating its own response plans, Jindal said, and he wants the Coast Guard to approve the plans and BP to agree to pay for them. Jindal said he wanted to “be very clear” on what’s at stake for the state.
“This oil spill threatens our way of life,” he said.
"Close the Well Head Doors, HAL."
"I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."
(No word yet on whether the state will Seize All BP's Assets --down to the toilet paper in every gas station.)
MS Rep. Gene Taylor says BP Oil Disaster is not Armageddon, passes on Bhopal and Chernobyl
BP Oil Spill slows its advance towards the coast ~Wunderblog
The oil slick from the April 20 explosion and blowout of the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon continues to affect the Louisiana coast near the mouth of the Mississippi River, and along the Chandelier Islands off the coast of Mississippi. Strong south to southeast winds blowing at 15 - 25 knots will continue through Monday, which will push oil onto portions of the eastern Louisiana coast from the mouth of the Mississippi River northwards towards the Mississippi border. Click to enlarge, courtesy: Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.
NOAA Mississippi Canyon 252 Estimate:
6:00am CDT, Sunday 5/02/10
Date Prepared: 4:00pm CDT, Saturday 5/01/10
This forecast is based on the NWS spot forecast from Saturday, May 1 AM. Currents were obtained from the NOAA Gulf of Mexico model, TexasA&M/TGLO, and NAVO models.
Strong SE winds of 20-25 kts are expected to continue through Saturday night.
Beginning Sunday, winds are forecast to be more southerly and decrease to 15-20 kts by Sunday night. These winds will continue to bring oil towards the shoreline along the Mississippi River Delta, Breton Island, and the Chandelier Islands.
Winds on Monday are expected to be from the SW becoming NW by Monday night.
How You Can Volunteer to Clean Up the BP Oil Spill Disaster
~Volunteers interested in oil spill cleanup efforts urged to get training.
BP Oil Spill balloons, could move east~The massive Oil Man River, spewing from a ruptured well, kept growing today, and experts warned that an uncontrolled gusher could create a nightmare scenario if the Gulf Stream carries it toward the Atlantic.
BP Oils Disaster brings wave of terror to southeast Louisiana outdoorsmen~Bob Marshal
Obama coming, Jindal critical, oil response hampered~WWL
Obama allows campaign team to spin his administration's Fey'lo Response to BP Oil Disaster
Hey Look Everybody! Barry funnier than The Tar Baby!
Whew! For a moment there we thought the His'O'ner had his hand on the greatest man-made disaster in history. Alas instead, we see he has the sense of humor of a trained monkey with its cup out.
Oh Snap! You can actually hear the President cuss like a VP!
We gotta get this guy for our next Hurricane Party starting June!
Isn't he just tooo funny? I can't stand it! HA! HA! HA!
He just handed the Republicans their next Presidency as they plaster every joke he told last night all over the face of this Disaster. Way to go Barry. Joking with the Press is so important.
Such Wit! And this after a grueling day working on his State of the Nation Weekly Radio Address. I mean, His'O'ner must have had to work Pretty Goddamn Hard To Write A Speech That Ignores The Greatest Man-Made Disaster In History. Right? ...Right???
We were all waiting to hear from the Commander In Chief about this latest terror threat to our shores, and he decided to channel his Idea of Hope on Campaign Reform? Right, said Br'er Rabbit.
Now I'm beginning to wonder myself about the President's Birth, but more to the question: On Which Planet Was He Born?
Was Obama indeed Born? Or, if as I you follow Vegas Odds On, is he created from the Chemistry Set of one Zippy the Pinhead?
Thanks Mr President. Hope you can stay more than a couple of hours this visit... maybe even actually look at our coasts.
Do drop by Leah Chase's again, get you some Seafood Gumbo!
Toll'em Editilla sent'ya!
We're know we shouldn't pick on His'O'ner since he really is da'busiest man on the Bailout Line, and besides, we know He Got People working the problem:
"There is reason now to know more than we knew originally...." ~Janet Napolitano, Head of Homeland Security --yesterday.
Ahem! Yes, well, uuuhhmm...what? Houston, we have a problem.
We really really really don't need this bullshit right now.
Louisiana governor: "We are seeing sheens" of oil hit coast. Coast Guard 'Incident' Head Thad Allen says a stupid thing, "We don't know how many days the discharge will continue."
~Unified Command circles for group hug.
U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad Allen speaks with local,
state and federal members participating in the BP Oil Disaster response at the Unified Command here, during an 'all-hands', Saturday, May 1, 2010.
While Admiral Allen attempts to Wipe & Cover Their Ass,
BP's chairman is rejecting criticism that his company's safety record played a role in the drilling rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Lamar McKay is putting the blame on "a failed piece of equipment." He tells ABC's "This Week" that he doesn't know how much oil is flowing from the well off the Louisiana coast. He says that estimates of 5,000 barrels a day are uncertain. McKay says he can't say when the well might be closed.
But he says he believes a special magic invisibility dome that could be placed over the well is expected to be deployed in six to eight days. Look for him to Lie even more on CBS.
BP, Transocean Lawsuits Surge as Oil Spill Spreads in Gulf
~BP Plc and Transocean Ltd. face at least 36 lawsuits, including group cases with potentially thousands of plaintiffs, over environmental damage and personal injuries caused by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. At least 31 proposed class-action suits have been filed in courthouses from Texas to Florida. Commercial fishermen, shrimpers, charter-boat operators and beachfront-property owners asked to represent anyone whose livelihood depends on coastal waters imperiled by the drifting oil. At least 24 cases were filed yesterday. BP has the primary liability for damage caused by the spill, said Keith Hall, an attorney in New Orleans, who isn’t involved in the litigation. He cited a U.S. law passed after the Exxon Valdez oil spill at Alaska in 1989.
We interrupt this interruption of our regularly scheduled disaster blogging to report that levees have failed above Memphis
~Photo of the flood waters at Millington Naval Air Station
This unusual deluge of rain, over 13 inches since this morning, has caused areas of the county to flood, washing out roads, bridges, levees and stranding citizens in the homes.
With more Thunderstorms in the forecasts tonight, Memphis and Shelby County remain under a State of Emergency.
~SLABBED sadly interrupts the Editilla’s “interruption of the interruption of regularly scheduled disaster blogging” to report At Least 3 Dead In Severe Weather In Mississippi.
~Amy Wold
Oil booms that were placed in preparation of the looming oil spill from last week's collapse and spill of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig float along the shoreline Saturday, May 1, 2010, along the South Pass, south of Venice, Louisiana. Photo: Eric Gay/AP~The parish’s plan is to pre-stage booms on movable platforms at 11 locations on both sides of the Mississippi River. At each staging location there would be a number of boats that could quickly deploy the booms if heavy oil starts to head in that direction, Nungesser said. The booms would be deployed between marsh sections, which would act as additional booms, he said. The plan would mean some cleanup would have to be done, but it could keep oil out of interior marshes where it would be almost impossible to clean up, Nungesser said.
~At a news conference Saturday, Jindal again said he is concerned whether BP has the ability to respond to the disaster. And he added that he no longer plans to wait for BP or the federal government to protect the state. “We are past the point of waiting for cleanup plans from BP and the incident commander,” he said, referring to the U.S. Coast Guard.
Instead, the state is creating its own response plans, Jindal said, and he wants the Coast Guard to approve the plans and BP to agree to pay for them. Jindal said he wanted to “be very clear” on what’s at stake for the state.
“This oil spill threatens our way of life,” he said.
"Close the Well Head Doors, HAL."
"I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."
(No word yet on whether the state will Seize All BP's Assets --down to the toilet paper in every gas station.)
MS Rep. Gene Taylor says BP Oil Disaster is not Armageddon, passes on Bhopal and Chernobyl
BP Oil Spill slows its advance towards the coast ~Wunderblog
The oil slick from the April 20 explosion and blowout of the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon continues to affect the Louisiana coast near the mouth of the Mississippi River, and along the Chandelier Islands off the coast of Mississippi. Strong south to southeast winds blowing at 15 - 25 knots will continue through Monday, which will push oil onto portions of the eastern Louisiana coast from the mouth of the Mississippi River northwards towards the Mississippi border. Click to enlarge, courtesy: Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.NOAA Mississippi Canyon 252 Estimate:
6:00am CDT, Sunday 5/02/10
Date Prepared: 4:00pm CDT, Saturday 5/01/10
This forecast is based on the NWS spot forecast from Saturday, May 1 AM. Currents were obtained from the NOAA Gulf of Mexico model, TexasA&M/TGLO, and NAVO models.
Strong SE winds of 20-25 kts are expected to continue through Saturday night.
Beginning Sunday, winds are forecast to be more southerly and decrease to 15-20 kts by Sunday night. These winds will continue to bring oil towards the shoreline along the Mississippi River Delta, Breton Island, and the Chandelier Islands.
Winds on Monday are expected to be from the SW becoming NW by Monday night.
How You Can Volunteer to Clean Up the BP Oil Spill Disaster~Volunteers interested in oil spill cleanup efforts urged to get training.
BP Oil Spill balloons, could move east~The massive Oil Man River, spewing from a ruptured well, kept growing today, and experts warned that an uncontrolled gusher could create a nightmare scenario if the Gulf Stream carries it toward the Atlantic.
BP Oils Disaster brings wave of terror to southeast Louisiana outdoorsmen~Bob Marshal
Obama coming, Jindal critical, oil response hampered~WWL
Obama allows campaign team to spin his administration's Fey'lo Response to BP Oil Disaster
Hey Look Everybody! Barry funnier than The Tar Baby!
Whew! For a moment there we thought the His'O'ner had his hand on the greatest man-made disaster in history. Alas instead, we see he has the sense of humor of a trained monkey with its cup out.
Oh Snap! You can actually hear the President cuss like a VP!
We gotta get this guy for our next Hurricane Party starting June!
Isn't he just tooo funny? I can't stand it! HA! HA! HA!
He just handed the Republicans their next Presidency as they plaster every joke he told last night all over the face of this Disaster. Way to go Barry. Joking with the Press is so important.
Such Wit! And this after a grueling day working on his State of the Nation Weekly Radio Address. I mean, His'O'ner must have had to work Pretty Goddamn Hard To Write A Speech That Ignores The Greatest Man-Made Disaster In History. Right? ...Right???
We were all waiting to hear from the Commander In Chief about this latest terror threat to our shores, and he decided to channel his Idea of Hope on Campaign Reform? Right, said Br'er Rabbit.
Now I'm beginning to wonder myself about the President's Birth, but more to the question: On Which Planet Was He Born?
Was Obama indeed Born? Or, if as I you follow Vegas Odds On, is he created from the Chemistry Set of one Zippy the Pinhead?
Thanks Mr President. Hope you can stay more than a couple of hours this visit... maybe even actually look at our coasts.Do drop by Leah Chase's again, get you some Seafood Gumbo!
Toll'em Editilla sent'ya!
We're know we shouldn't pick on His'O'ner since he really is da'busiest man on the Bailout Line, and besides, we know He Got People working the problem:
"There is reason now to know more than we knew originally...." ~Janet Napolitano, Head of Homeland Security --yesterday.
Ahem! Yes, well, uuuhhmm...what? Houston, we have a problem.
We really really really don't need this bullshit right now.
Louisiana governor: "We are seeing sheens" of oil hit coast. Coast Guard 'Incident' Head Thad Allen says a stupid thing, "We don't know how many days the discharge will continue."
~Unified Command circles for group hug.U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad Allen speaks with local,
state and federal members participating in the BP Oil Disaster response at the Unified Command here, during an 'all-hands', Saturday, May 1, 2010.While Admiral Allen attempts to Wipe & Cover Their Ass,
BP's chairman is rejecting criticism that his company's safety record played a role in the drilling rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Lamar McKay is putting the blame on "a failed piece of equipment." He tells ABC's "This Week" that he doesn't know how much oil is flowing from the well off the Louisiana coast. He says that estimates of 5,000 barrels a day are uncertain. McKay says he can't say when the well might be closed.
But he says he believes a special magic invisibility dome that could be placed over the well is expected to be deployed in six to eight days. Look for him to Lie even more on CBS.
BP, Transocean Lawsuits Surge as Oil Spill Spreads in Gulf
~BP Plc and Transocean Ltd. face at least 36 lawsuits, including group cases with potentially thousands of plaintiffs, over environmental damage and personal injuries caused by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. At least 31 proposed class-action suits have been filed in courthouses from Texas to Florida. Commercial fishermen, shrimpers, charter-boat operators and beachfront-property owners asked to represent anyone whose livelihood depends on coastal waters imperiled by the drifting oil. At least 24 cases were filed yesterday. BP has the primary liability for damage caused by the spill, said Keith Hall, an attorney in New Orleans, who isn’t involved in the litigation. He cited a U.S. law passed after the Exxon Valdez oil spill at Alaska in 1989.
We interrupt this interruption of our regularly scheduled disaster blogging to report that levees have failed above Memphis
~Photo of the flood waters at Millington Naval Air StationThis unusual deluge of rain, over 13 inches since this morning, has caused areas of the county to flood, washing out roads, bridges, levees and stranding citizens in the homes.
With more Thunderstorms in the forecasts tonight, Memphis and Shelby County remain under a State of Emergency.
~SLABBED sadly interrupts the Editilla’s “interruption of the interruption of regularly scheduled disaster blogging” to report At Least 3 Dead In Severe Weather In Mississippi.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Samedi
Attorneys general from five Gulf Coast states to discuss oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
~Editilla gotta Axe~So do they plan to seize all BP assets? Everything down to the handles on every gas pump, trucks, offices, OIL RIGS? Well? Seize All BP Assets until this is over?
At least confiscate their Passports?
Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund
The oil slick, which resulted from the accident at the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico, lingered near the Mississippi Delta on May 1, 2010.
~The environmental whistleblowers at SkyTruth, which debunked earlier lowball estimates from the government and BP, said the spill will top the Exxon spill by the end of the day Saturday. Federal point man and Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen didn't dispute the calculations of MacDonald of SkyTruth, but said "any exact estimate is probably impossible at this point."
~Editilla pointillas~That is because Admiral Thad Allen has lost credibility already and is Blowing Smoke Up A Monkey's Ass to make us look away from the Finger making the Monkey Dance.
‘This is our Chernobyl’, says Sierra Club~The Mississippi Sierra Club called for more federal aid today to address the threats from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. At a news conference, senior regional representative director Louie Miller compared the oil spill crisis to the 1986 Russian nuclear power plant disaster, stating “This is our Chernobyl.” The organization is calling for the federal government to send help immediately to deal with the crisis.
Hey Everybody! Don't Miss Obama vs. Leno at White House Correspondents' Dinner Tonight! Oh Snap! Next stop: Oilville
~Will His'O'ner drop some'O'dat Slick Humor? Ha Ha Ha
~Will Leno try to put a Little Oil on his chances in Congress?
~Will Michelle point to her watch and say "Baby, Slime Waits for No Man. It's time to go to New Orleans."
Gentle'rillas are Crying to Know! Stay Tuned to your AQI!
~Editilla gotta Axe~So do they plan to seize all BP assets? Everything down to the handles on every gas pump, trucks, offices, OIL RIGS? Well? Seize All BP Assets until this is over?
At least confiscate their Passports?
Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund
The oil slick, which resulted from the accident at the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico, lingered near the Mississippi Delta on May 1, 2010.~The environmental whistleblowers at SkyTruth, which debunked earlier lowball estimates from the government and BP, said the spill will top the Exxon spill by the end of the day Saturday. Federal point man and Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen didn't dispute the calculations of MacDonald of SkyTruth, but said "any exact estimate is probably impossible at this point."
~Editilla pointillas~That is because Admiral Thad Allen has lost credibility already and is Blowing Smoke Up A Monkey's Ass to make us look away from the Finger making the Monkey Dance.
‘This is our Chernobyl’, says Sierra Club~The Mississippi Sierra Club called for more federal aid today to address the threats from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. At a news conference, senior regional representative director Louie Miller compared the oil spill crisis to the 1986 Russian nuclear power plant disaster, stating “This is our Chernobyl.” The organization is calling for the federal government to send help immediately to deal with the crisis.
Hey Everybody! Don't Miss Obama vs. Leno at White House Correspondents' Dinner Tonight! Oh Snap! Next stop: Oilville
~Will His'O'ner drop some'O'dat Slick Humor? Ha Ha Ha
~Will Leno try to put a Little Oil on his chances in Congress?
~Will Michelle point to her watch and say "Baby, Slime Waits for No Man. It's time to go to New Orleans."
Gentle'rillas are Crying to Know! Stay Tuned to your AQI!
Documents: BP didn't plan for major oil spill~Digital Journal
~Pelicans and other shore birds are seen on Breton Island Friday, April 30, 2010.~Photos above/below right: Alex Brandon/AP
Leaked report: Government fears Deepwater Horizon well could become unchecked gusher
~'The following is not public' document states
~As oil edged toward the Louisiana coast, fears continued to grow that the leak from the seabed oil well could spiral out of control. A document prepared by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the oil flow could grow from the current estimate of 5,000 barrels a day to 10 times that much, which could be 2.1 million gallons a day.
~Editilla Notellas~This is set-up to the public admission of Exactly What SkyTruth started saying this week.
If we cannot fundamentally trust our Government during Man Made Disaster, then We Cannot Fundamentally Trust Our Government During Man Made Disaster.
~Dr. Erica Miller, right, and Danene Birtell with Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research work to help a Northern Gannet bird, covered in oil, normally white when full grown, at a facility in Fort Jackson, La., on Friday.
TOO LATE: Pelicans and seagulls rest on Ship Island as an oil containment boom line floats offshore. Photo: ZUMA Press
Officials say winds could carry oil slick onto Gulf coast
High winds disrupting oil spill clean-up of BP Oils Disaster
~Mark Schleifstein
Booms readied near Chef Menteur, Ft. Pike, to protect Lake Pontchartrain from BP Oil Spill Disaster
Gulf oil spill: New Orleans residents 'taking ownership' of their fate
New Orleans: The Joy and the Dread~Harry Shearer
~After two or three months in which it seemed this city was virtually levitating (the Saints' victory in the Super Bowl, the forthcoming end of the Ray Nagin era), that sinking feeling is back, just at the time the city is reaching the climax of JazzFest. So, the talk among the locals is the dread that the regional economy, and ecology, is about to take another disastrous hit at the hands of outsiders, while the visitors are enjoying the music, the food, and the crafts that flow from the culture formed by that ecology. And there are reports of locals lining up for what many expect may be their last taste of raw Louisiana oysters for a long, long time. Frozen Chinese seafood, anyone?
Defense Mobilizes Louisiana
National Guard to Fight BP Oil
Spill~Georgianne Nienaber~GN's pics included in this Huff Post Slick Slide Show
~GN just checked in from the road. She has to go to Haiti to cover the aftermath of That actual natural disaster, and perhaps will give us an update after the Oil Flow catches the Loop Current and makes it's way into the Gulf Stream past Cuba?
ANOTHER UNIFIED COMMAND CORRECTION:UPDATE-BSWTF
Obama heading to Gulf for BP Oil Spill Sunday but first he has to do a Commencement Speech and a Comedy Show tonight theeenn he'll get around to checking in on the BP Oil Spill Disaster Zone.
~His'O'ner and Napolitano cannot be happy with the official press photo of her having a Bush Moment Of Stupid (BMOS), while touring the Gulf. It is eerily reminiscent of the photo taken of George Bush when he
did a fly-over of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Bush was roundly criticized for government inaction in the wake of the flood. Apparently "Bush Stupid" can jump party lines like oil jumps a boom!
"There is reason now
to know more than we knew originally...."
~Janet Napolitano, Head of Homeland Security...ahem
Obama's Weekly Address Ignores BP Oil Spill Disaster, Calls for Campaign Finance Reform?
New York Times:
BP’s man-made oil catastrophe a “natural disaster” ~Gambit
~It’s awfully early in the game for the sort of jawdropping, slap-your-face journalistic inaccuracies we saw in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures.
~A Frolic of My Own nails this New Disaster Shorthand Dog!
Ah Jeez Louie! Louisiana Drilling Rig Overturns: Accident At Mobile Inland Drilling Unit
BP Oil Spill Crisis Makes Colbert
~Gulf Restoration Network
~Is David Simon's next show gonna'be called Crema?
Alabama gov declares emergency as BP Oil Spill approaches
BP Oil Spill changes everything
~Michael Brune~This BP offshore rig that exploded was supposed to be state-of-the-art. We've also been assured again and again that the hundreds of offshore drilling rigs along our beaches are completely safe. Now, we've seen workers tragically killed. We've seen our ocean lit on fire, and now we're watching hundreds of thousands of gallons of toxic oil seep toward wetlands and wildlife habitat.
Environmental Defense Fund calls for $4 billion for coastal restoration due to BP Oil Spill Disaster~Much of the money would be used to accelerate construction of five major restoration projects authorized by Congress in 2007 as part of the Louisiana Coastal Area Ecosystem Restoration Plan.
Black Death: Will Fisheries Survive the Oil Spill?
~John Besh ~Hat Tip~American Zombie
Expedition Blue Planet:
Tab Benoit Voice of the Wetlands
Part 1~Bayou Child
In BP Oil Spill Disaster, Fragile Marshes Face New Threat
Dr. Jeff Masters' Wunderblog
~Surface ocean current forecast for 8pm EDT Tuesday, May 4 from the NOAA's RTOFS model run made at 8 pm EDT on Wednesday, April 28, 2010.
Note that on Tuesday, northwest winds are expected to create surface currents of about 1 m/s (roughly 2 mph) from the site of the spill towards the southeast. It is possible that these currents will be strong enough to transport oil far enough south that it will enter the Loop Current, which would then transport the oil into northwest Cuba, the Florida Keys, and South Florida.
BP Spill spares Terrebonne, Lafourche — for now
~Raymond Legendre~Oyster Beds: Areas 2-7 east of Placqueminnes and St. Bernard CLOSED, upper schedules to be closed
BP Oil Spill Disaster has New Orleans diners, restaurateurs worrying about local seafood
Up to their necks in Possumneck – a tornado damage and “help needed” update ~slabbed
“New Orleans is his city, and he is going to know it inside and out. Without the spirit of the people who live there and take care of the city and honor its traditions, its love for music, its love for life, take those people out and you have why I love New Orleans so much.” Bullock said.
~Pelicans and other shore birds are seen on Breton Island Friday, April 30, 2010.~Photos above/below right: Alex Brandon/APLeaked report: Government fears Deepwater Horizon well could become unchecked gusher
~'The following is not public' document states
~As oil edged toward the Louisiana coast, fears continued to grow that the leak from the seabed oil well could spiral out of control. A document prepared by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the oil flow could grow from the current estimate of 5,000 barrels a day to 10 times that much, which could be 2.1 million gallons a day.
~Editilla Notellas~This is set-up to the public admission of Exactly What SkyTruth started saying this week.
If we cannot fundamentally trust our Government during Man Made Disaster, then We Cannot Fundamentally Trust Our Government During Man Made Disaster.
~Dr. Erica Miller, right, and Danene Birtell with Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research work to help a Northern Gannet bird, covered in oil, normally white when full grown, at a facility in Fort Jackson, La., on Friday.
TOO LATE: Pelicans and seagulls rest on Ship Island as an oil containment boom line floats offshore. Photo: ZUMA PressOfficials say winds could carry oil slick onto Gulf coast
High winds disrupting oil spill clean-up of BP Oils Disaster
~Mark Schleifstein
Booms readied near Chef Menteur, Ft. Pike, to protect Lake Pontchartrain from BP Oil Spill Disaster
Gulf oil spill: New Orleans residents 'taking ownership' of their fate
New Orleans: The Joy and the Dread~Harry Shearer
~After two or three months in which it seemed this city was virtually levitating (the Saints' victory in the Super Bowl, the forthcoming end of the Ray Nagin era), that sinking feeling is back, just at the time the city is reaching the climax of JazzFest. So, the talk among the locals is the dread that the regional economy, and ecology, is about to take another disastrous hit at the hands of outsiders, while the visitors are enjoying the music, the food, and the crafts that flow from the culture formed by that ecology. And there are reports of locals lining up for what many expect may be their last taste of raw Louisiana oysters for a long, long time. Frozen Chinese seafood, anyone?
Defense Mobilizes LouisianaNational Guard to Fight BP Oil
Spill~Georgianne Nienaber~GN's pics included in this Huff Post Slick Slide Show
~GN just checked in from the road. She has to go to Haiti to cover the aftermath of That actual natural disaster, and perhaps will give us an update after the Oil Flow catches the Loop Current and makes it's way into the Gulf Stream past Cuba?
ANOTHER UNIFIED COMMAND CORRECTION:UPDATE-BSWTF
Obama heading to Gulf for BP Oil Spill Sunday but first he has to do a Commencement Speech and a Comedy Show tonight theeenn he'll get around to checking in on the BP Oil Spill Disaster Zone.
~His'O'ner and Napolitano cannot be happy with the official press photo of her having a Bush Moment Of Stupid (BMOS), while touring the Gulf. It is eerily reminiscent of the photo taken of George Bush when he
did a fly-over of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.Bush was roundly criticized for government inaction in the wake of the flood. Apparently "Bush Stupid" can jump party lines like oil jumps a boom!
"There is reason now
to know more than we knew originally...."
~Janet Napolitano, Head of Homeland Security...ahem
Obama's Weekly Address Ignores BP Oil Spill Disaster, Calls for Campaign Finance Reform?
New York Times:
BP’s man-made oil catastrophe a “natural disaster” ~Gambit
~It’s awfully early in the game for the sort of jawdropping, slap-your-face journalistic inaccuracies we saw in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures.
~A Frolic of My Own nails this New Disaster Shorthand Dog!
Ah Jeez Louie! Louisiana Drilling Rig Overturns: Accident At Mobile Inland Drilling Unit
BP Oil Spill Crisis Makes Colbert
~Gulf Restoration Network
~Is David Simon's next show gonna'be called Crema?
Alabama gov declares emergency as BP Oil Spill approaches
BP Oil Spill changes everything
~Michael Brune~This BP offshore rig that exploded was supposed to be state-of-the-art. We've also been assured again and again that the hundreds of offshore drilling rigs along our beaches are completely safe. Now, we've seen workers tragically killed. We've seen our ocean lit on fire, and now we're watching hundreds of thousands of gallons of toxic oil seep toward wetlands and wildlife habitat.
Environmental Defense Fund calls for $4 billion for coastal restoration due to BP Oil Spill Disaster~Much of the money would be used to accelerate construction of five major restoration projects authorized by Congress in 2007 as part of the Louisiana Coastal Area Ecosystem Restoration Plan.
Black Death: Will Fisheries Survive the Oil Spill?
~John Besh ~Hat Tip~American Zombie
Expedition Blue Planet:
Tab Benoit Voice of the Wetlands
Part 1~Bayou Child
In BP Oil Spill Disaster, Fragile Marshes Face New ThreatDr. Jeff Masters' Wunderblog
~Surface ocean current forecast for 8pm EDT Tuesday, May 4 from the NOAA's RTOFS model run made at 8 pm EDT on Wednesday, April 28, 2010.Note that on Tuesday, northwest winds are expected to create surface currents of about 1 m/s (roughly 2 mph) from the site of the spill towards the southeast. It is possible that these currents will be strong enough to transport oil far enough south that it will enter the Loop Current, which would then transport the oil into northwest Cuba, the Florida Keys, and South Florida.
BP Spill spares Terrebonne, Lafourche — for now
~Raymond Legendre~Oyster Beds: Areas 2-7 east of Placqueminnes and St. Bernard CLOSED, upper schedules to be closed
BP Oil Spill Disaster has New Orleans diners, restaurateurs worrying about local seafood
Up to their necks in Possumneck – a tornado damage and “help needed” update ~slabbed
“New Orleans is his city, and he is going to know it inside and out. Without the spirit of the people who live there and take care of the city and honor its traditions, its love for music, its love for life, take those people out and you have why I love New Orleans so much.” Bullock said.
Friday, April 30, 2010
Vendredi
U.S. fights to protect shore from massive oil spill~Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said two Air Force C-130 aircraft equipped to spray dispersant chemicals on the slick were on their way to the area to join one of the biggest containment operations in history involving several hundred boats and planes.
Statement on National Guard mobilization
"In response to the BP oil spill, the SECRETARY OF DEFENSE IS AUTHORIZING UNDER TITLE 32 THE MOBILIZATION OF THE LOUISANA National Guard to help in the ongoing efforts to assist local communities in the cleanup and removal of oil and to protect critical habitats from contamination. As the responsible party in this incident, the government will hold BP accountable for the costs of the deployment."
Geoff Morrell
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
Pentagon Press Secretary
Statement on National Guard mobilization
"In response to the BP oil spill, the SECRETARY OF DEFENSE IS AUTHORIZING UNDER TITLE 32 THE MOBILIZATION OF THE LOUISANA National Guard to help in the ongoing efforts to assist local communities in the cleanup and removal of oil and to protect critical habitats from contamination. As the responsible party in this incident, the government will hold BP accountable for the costs of the deployment."
Geoff Morrell
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
Pentagon Press Secretary
SkyTruth estimates spill rate at 850,000 gallons 20,000 barrels per day --4 Times more than the 'Unified Command' statements
~This, and other radar images that SkyTruth is getting, confirm what we've seen on the NASA/MODIS images so far, and support our conservative calculations showing that in the first week of this spill at least 6 million gallons have entered the Gulf.
That's a spill rate of at least 850,000 gallons
(20,000 barrels)(5,950,000 pounds) of oil per day.
~Update~At Press Conference Live Now:
Coast Guard backs BP Lie on flow rate. Direct question regarding this SkyTruth data and BP Lied, obfuscated and Bull Shitted. Federals are covering for BP.
They are not acknowledging this new Spill Estimate.
The Coast Guard Admiral Mary Landry should be Relieved of Duty for supporting emotionally BP and "the Response" over solid Data to the contrary.
There is a difference between "getting it wrong" and Lying With The Enemy.
Our reporter on the ground, Georgianne Nienaber, just filed this quote of the day, from the Secretary of Homeland Security and Head of UNIFIED COMMAND, Janet Napolitano: "There is reason now to know more than we knew originally...." Uuuhhm OK, Yogi!
WTFing What? HUH? This is NOT Encouraging.
But hey, don't just take our word for it...
Halliburton May Be Culprit In BP Oil Rig Explosion
~Though the investigation into the explosion that sank the Deepwater Horizon site is still in its early stages, drilling experts agree that blame probably lies with flaws in the "cementing" process -- that is, plugging holes in the pipeline seal by pumping cement into it from the rig. Halliburton was in charge of cementing for Deepwater Horizon.
"The initial likely cause of gas coming to the surface had something to do with the cement," said Robert MacKenzie, managing director of energy and natural resources at FBR Capital Markets and a former cementing engineer in the oil industry.
The problem could have been a faulty cement plug at the bottom of the well, he said. Another possibility would be that cement between the pipe and well walls didn't harden properly and allowed gas to pass through it.
Port of New Orleans Update On BP Oil Spill Affect Upon State
New Orleans officials monitoring BP Oil Spill, air quality in the city, Mitch Landrieu says
~"Just because this oil spill isn't physically touching New Orleans right now, it's going to have a devastating impact, potentially, if it turns out to be as bad as some people are predicting it is,"
said Landrieu, who continues to serve as Louisiana's lieutenant governor until he takes steps into the top job at City Hall.
"We are all in sync and have been spending most of our waking hours worrying about this," Landrieu said, adding that he spent most of his time Thursday at a joint operating center in Robert.
Unfavorable winds set to push Gulf of Mexico oil spill into Louisiana~Wunderblog
Heavy winds and high tides hamper BP Oil Spill fight
U.S. Gulf States Mobilize for Wrongly named "Valdez-Like" Oil Spill ~Bloomberg
~Editilla Crowtellas~Every Spill Expert that we have heard from maintains that this is NOT A SPILL and NOT AT ALL LIKE THE EXXON VALDEZ, to wit: Tankers Hold Only So Much, yet this is the Gift that Just Keeps On Giving! The operative description we have been hearing the most is: River of Oil.
~This, and other radar images that SkyTruth is getting, confirm what we've seen on the NASA/MODIS images so far, and support our conservative calculations showing that in the first week of this spill at least 6 million gallons have entered the Gulf.
That's a spill rate of at least 850,000 gallons
(20,000 barrels)(5,950,000 pounds) of oil per day.
~Update~At Press Conference Live Now:
Coast Guard backs BP Lie on flow rate. Direct question regarding this SkyTruth data and BP Lied, obfuscated and Bull Shitted. Federals are covering for BP.
They are not acknowledging this new Spill Estimate.
The Coast Guard Admiral Mary Landry should be Relieved of Duty for supporting emotionally BP and "the Response" over solid Data to the contrary.
There is a difference between "getting it wrong" and Lying With The Enemy.
Our reporter on the ground, Georgianne Nienaber, just filed this quote of the day, from the Secretary of Homeland Security and Head of UNIFIED COMMAND, Janet Napolitano: "There is reason now to know more than we knew originally...." Uuuhhm OK, Yogi!
WTFing What? HUH? This is NOT Encouraging.
But hey, don't just take our word for it...
Halliburton May Be Culprit In BP Oil Rig Explosion
~Though the investigation into the explosion that sank the Deepwater Horizon site is still in its early stages, drilling experts agree that blame probably lies with flaws in the "cementing" process -- that is, plugging holes in the pipeline seal by pumping cement into it from the rig. Halliburton was in charge of cementing for Deepwater Horizon.
"The initial likely cause of gas coming to the surface had something to do with the cement," said Robert MacKenzie, managing director of energy and natural resources at FBR Capital Markets and a former cementing engineer in the oil industry.
The problem could have been a faulty cement plug at the bottom of the well, he said. Another possibility would be that cement between the pipe and well walls didn't harden properly and allowed gas to pass through it.
Port of New Orleans Update On BP Oil Spill Affect Upon State
New Orleans officials monitoring BP Oil Spill, air quality in the city, Mitch Landrieu says
~"Just because this oil spill isn't physically touching New Orleans right now, it's going to have a devastating impact, potentially, if it turns out to be as bad as some people are predicting it is,"
said Landrieu, who continues to serve as Louisiana's lieutenant governor until he takes steps into the top job at City Hall.
"We are all in sync and have been spending most of our waking hours worrying about this," Landrieu said, adding that he spent most of his time Thursday at a joint operating center in Robert.
Unfavorable winds set to push Gulf of Mexico oil spill into Louisiana~Wunderblog
Heavy winds and high tides hamper BP Oil Spill fight
U.S. Gulf States Mobilize for Wrongly named "Valdez-Like" Oil Spill ~Bloomberg
~Editilla Crowtellas~Every Spill Expert that we have heard from maintains that this is NOT A SPILL and NOT AT ALL LIKE THE EXXON VALDEZ, to wit: Tankers Hold Only So Much, yet this is the Gift that Just Keeps On Giving! The operative description we have been hearing the most is: River of Oil.
Oil Man River,
Dat Oil Man River
He mus'know pumpin'
But don't say nuthin',
He jes'keeps flowin'
He keeps on flowin' along.
Dat Oil Man River
He mus'know pumpin'
But don't say nuthin',
He jes'keeps flowin'
He keeps on flowin' along.
BP Oil Drilling Disaster: Spill Comes Ashore, Booms Useless ~Gulf Restoration Network
~Sandy Rosenthal snagged quick interview this morning with the busy director of GRN, Aaron Viles, who is just about the most informed voice I've been hearing quoted in the media.
When GRN makes a statement, you can Take It To The Bank!
BP Oil Spill Disaster washing over boom in some areas, says Plaquemines Parish president
~Bob Warren~Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser said this morning that a recent flyover showed areas where oily water was lapping over the boom set out to contain the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico.
Also, he said, because of the rough weather in the Gulf, some of the boom appeared to have broken free and washed onto an area beach and other boom appeared to have sunk, he said.
"It's not keeping the oil out,'' Nungesser said. "And it's only going to get worse before it gets better.''
Oil spill bears down on La. coast today as History begins again
NOAA Graphic showing Oil Trajectory of May 1st.
UNIFIED COMMAND REPORT (where they call this New Man Made Disaster "The Incident")
~Friday, April 30, 1:30 PM CDT --Press Briefing
~Secretary Napolitano, Secretary Salazar, Administrator Jackson, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles will participate in a media briefing
@ Shell Robert Training and Conference Center
23260 Shell Lane Robert, La. OPEN PRESS*
* Media interested in attending must contact the joint information center at (985) 902-5231 or (985) 902-5240 no later than 10:30 a.m. to confirm. A joint information center representative will be at the gate at 12 p.m. to escort media.
(Because we wouldn't want any media running around on their own now Would We???)
~Federal Government's PR Website for "The Incident": Unified Command UPDATE 13 looks exactly like UPDATE 12, 11, 10, lots of pictures little information.
~Real Update 9:55 am:
Georgianne Nienaber has made her way into the Media Staging Area where everyone is waiting, the whole gang's in town:
Al Jazeera, CNN, MSNBC, All the acronyms and Big Shows. We'll keep you posted as she phones-in more updates and pictures.
~Real Update 11:15 am~
~GN just phoned again from Venice, La and reports that this Boom Operation isn't nearly as busy with "ships" as the Feds are trying to say. It just ain't happening. Furthermore, she reports winds in excess of 20 knots and high wave action coming in.
She also spoke to local fishermen who were returning from trying to lay boom and they say that it is bad but not as bad as what is coming, this is just the beginning.
~Real Update 12 noon~Docked Boom???
GN just sent this pic of a docked Boom Ships and idled fishing vessels.
The seas are to high to deploy, so we wait.
But of course... Slime Waits for No One.
She has declined the Club Fed Offer to 'Bed, to go on a 3 hour tour of a boom operation
--in favor of speaking to the Fisher Folk standing up on the ever darkening land.
~Editilla grades UNIFIED COMMAND: F-Troop...
--almost useless Fo'Real Time but great PR shots and graphics.
The movement on this site is Labyrinthine. The Video Updates don't load, the Text Updates are repetitive BS "Spill Facts", and the Operative Frame Word is "Incident."
For example: under the site's "Area Contingency Plans (Sector New Orleans)" you will eventually find this. This will not do.
We must have real time, responsive actionable Information.
~Al Jazeera's Sebastian Walker, reporting from a fishing port south of New Orleans, said fishermen were out in the early hours of Friday, trying to get as much of their catch as they could before the oil slick was expected to hit the shore.
'You just feel helpless'
~Looking out to sea, awaiting one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history, fourth-generation oyster farmer John Tesvich thought about the last major disaster to hit the Gulf Coast.
"It's just like what we saw with Hurricane Katrina," said Tesvich, 53. "At first, it was just another storm, just like this was just another oil spill. But by the time they realize how bad it really is, it's too late."
"Why is the response taking so long?"
"Why can't they stop this?"
Key info on BP Oil Disaster: local, state, fed response, emergency contact info, what you can do to plug in with BP ~GNO
MS Coast State of Emergency
~City and county governments on the Coast are meeting today to declare a state of emergency as they watch for oil to reach the coastline. The Harrison County Supervisors are meeting now. The Biloxi City Council will meet at 1:30 p.m. and the Long Beach Aldermen have scheduled a special meeting for 2 p.m. Other municipalities are expected to follow with declarations to protect the health and safety of Coast residents.
Mississippi's first class-action lawsuit filed over oil spill
Weather hurts Gulf oil fight; new drilling on hold~Cain Burdeau
Stench Over New Orleans
~Who's Shoes are these anyway?
Profit From our Suffering ~NOLAFemmes
How You Can Help Wildlife Impacted by the Louisiana Oil Spill ~NWF ~Hat Tweet~EDF_Louisiana
BP's Gulf oil spill reminds us we can't ignore wetlands: a look at books~Nordette Adams
Are Louisiana levees flooding South Mississippi?
~There are 350 miles of levees and flood walls that protect the Greater New Orleans area from the West Bank to the Gulf, closing in on the Mississippi state line.
But the push to reinforce and add to Louisiana's storm protection has raised grave concerns for Mississippians who say flood waters are rising on both sides of the border.
~Editilla Notellas~ Y'all have doubtless caught that we have interrupted our regularly scheduled blog'ramming to bring you this Epic Man Made BP Oil Disaster that is being visited on our shores as we speak. So we all over it. Yet, the article linked above will rise in salience to this issue, as we watch this River of Oil move over the Gulf Coast across Mississippi and Alabama perhaps even Florida and Texas.
~Sandy Rosenthal snagged quick interview this morning with the busy director of GRN, Aaron Viles, who is just about the most informed voice I've been hearing quoted in the media.
When GRN makes a statement, you can Take It To The Bank!
BP Oil Spill Disaster washing over boom in some areas, says Plaquemines Parish president~Bob Warren~Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser said this morning that a recent flyover showed areas where oily water was lapping over the boom set out to contain the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico.
Also, he said, because of the rough weather in the Gulf, some of the boom appeared to have broken free and washed onto an area beach and other boom appeared to have sunk, he said.
"It's not keeping the oil out,'' Nungesser said. "And it's only going to get worse before it gets better.''
Oil spill bears down on La. coast today as History begins again
NOAA Graphic showing Oil Trajectory of May 1st.UNIFIED COMMAND REPORT (where they call this New Man Made Disaster "The Incident")
~Friday, April 30, 1:30 PM CDT --Press Briefing
~Secretary Napolitano, Secretary Salazar, Administrator Jackson, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles will participate in a media briefing
@ Shell Robert Training and Conference Center
23260 Shell Lane Robert, La. OPEN PRESS*
* Media interested in attending must contact the joint information center at (985) 902-5231 or (985) 902-5240 no later than 10:30 a.m. to confirm. A joint information center representative will be at the gate at 12 p.m. to escort media.
(Because we wouldn't want any media running around on their own now Would We???)
~Federal Government's PR Website for "The Incident": Unified Command UPDATE 13 looks exactly like UPDATE 12, 11, 10, lots of pictures little information.
~Real Update 9:55 am:Georgianne Nienaber has made her way into the Media Staging Area where everyone is waiting, the whole gang's in town:
Al Jazeera, CNN, MSNBC, All the acronyms and Big Shows. We'll keep you posted as she phones-in more updates and pictures.
~Real Update 11:15 am~
~GN just phoned again from Venice, La and reports that this Boom Operation isn't nearly as busy with "ships" as the Feds are trying to say. It just ain't happening. Furthermore, she reports winds in excess of 20 knots and high wave action coming in.
She also spoke to local fishermen who were returning from trying to lay boom and they say that it is bad but not as bad as what is coming, this is just the beginning.
~Real Update 12 noon~Docked Boom???
GN just sent this pic of a docked Boom Ships and idled fishing vessels.The seas are to high to deploy, so we wait.
But of course... Slime Waits for No One.
She has declined the Club Fed Offer to 'Bed, to go on a 3 hour tour of a boom operation--in favor of speaking to the Fisher Folk standing up on the ever darkening land.
~Editilla grades UNIFIED COMMAND: F-Troop...
--almost useless Fo'Real Time but great PR shots and graphics.
The movement on this site is Labyrinthine. The Video Updates don't load, the Text Updates are repetitive BS "Spill Facts", and the Operative Frame Word is "Incident."
For example: under the site's "Area Contingency Plans (Sector New Orleans)" you will eventually find this. This will not do.
We must have real time, responsive actionable Information.
~Al Jazeera's Sebastian Walker, reporting from a fishing port south of New Orleans, said fishermen were out in the early hours of Friday, trying to get as much of their catch as they could before the oil slick was expected to hit the shore.
'You just feel helpless'
~Looking out to sea, awaiting one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history, fourth-generation oyster farmer John Tesvich thought about the last major disaster to hit the Gulf Coast.
"It's just like what we saw with Hurricane Katrina," said Tesvich, 53. "At first, it was just another storm, just like this was just another oil spill. But by the time they realize how bad it really is, it's too late."
"Why is the response taking so long?"
"Why can't they stop this?"
Key info on BP Oil Disaster: local, state, fed response, emergency contact info, what you can do to plug in with BP ~GNO
MS Coast State of Emergency
~City and county governments on the Coast are meeting today to declare a state of emergency as they watch for oil to reach the coastline. The Harrison County Supervisors are meeting now. The Biloxi City Council will meet at 1:30 p.m. and the Long Beach Aldermen have scheduled a special meeting for 2 p.m. Other municipalities are expected to follow with declarations to protect the health and safety of Coast residents.
Mississippi's first class-action lawsuit filed over oil spill
Weather hurts Gulf oil fight; new drilling on hold~Cain Burdeau
Stench Over New Orleans
~Who's Shoes are these anyway?
Profit From our Suffering ~NOLAFemmes
How You Can Help Wildlife Impacted by the Louisiana Oil Spill ~NWF ~Hat Tweet~EDF_Louisiana
BP's Gulf oil spill reminds us we can't ignore wetlands: a look at books~Nordette Adams
Are Louisiana levees flooding South Mississippi?
~There are 350 miles of levees and flood walls that protect the Greater New Orleans area from the West Bank to the Gulf, closing in on the Mississippi state line.
But the push to reinforce and add to Louisiana's storm protection has raised grave concerns for Mississippians who say flood waters are rising on both sides of the border.
~Editilla Notellas~ Y'all have doubtless caught that we have interrupted our regularly scheduled blog'ramming to bring you this Epic Man Made BP Oil Disaster that is being visited on our shores as we speak. So we all over it. Yet, the article linked above will rise in salience to this issue, as we watch this River of Oil move over the Gulf Coast across Mississippi and Alabama perhaps even Florida and Texas.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Jeudi
Plaquemines president: Oil spill may already be on La.'s coast
~Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser said based on his observations from a Coast Guard helicopter just a short while ago, the spill could be hitting the Mississippi River Delta now.
~"We want to be hired to come clean it up,"
said George Baracich of the United Commercial Fishermen's Association. "We have boats, we have knowledge, we know the estuary, we know where we're at, and we're not scared of working fifteen or twenty hours a day as a time. That's what we do when we're catching shrimp."
~Please see Georgianne Nienaber's dizzying UPDATE just filed at Huffington Post!
Oil from Gulf spill is reaching Louisiana coastline
Gulf spill is really a river of oil, environmentalists say
~"This isn't a spill," said Kerry St. Pe, who headed Louisiana's oil spill response team for 23 years. "This isn't a storage tank or a ship with a finite amount of oil that has boundaries. This is much, much worse. It's a river of oil flowing from the bottom of the Gulf at the rate of 210,000 gallons a day that officials say could be running for two months or more.
If that prediction holds, much of the state's southeastern coast will become a world-watched environmental battleground that hasn't been seen in the United States since the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska 21 years ago."
Louisiana fishers fear lasting damage to livelihoods from Gulf oil spill
Nobody Could Have Predicted
~Library Chronicles
Frozen in the Head Lights, Governor Jindal seems Powerless, plays Blame Game
~Gov. Bobby Jindal said this afternoon he has repeatedly asked BP, the Coast Guard and federal authorities for a plan about the number of people and resources that will be dedicated to combating the potentially devastating environmental impacts of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but as of Thursday afternoon he still had not received an answer.~Jindal asked the Defense Dept to pay for 6,000 members of the Louisiana National Guard to assist with the cleanup for at least 90 days. What? Or what?
~Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser said based on his observations from a Coast Guard helicopter just a short while ago, the spill could be hitting the Mississippi River Delta now.
~"We want to be hired to come clean it up,"
said George Baracich of the United Commercial Fishermen's Association. "We have boats, we have knowledge, we know the estuary, we know where we're at, and we're not scared of working fifteen or twenty hours a day as a time. That's what we do when we're catching shrimp."
~Please see Georgianne Nienaber's dizzying UPDATE just filed at Huffington Post!
Oil from Gulf spill is reaching Louisiana coastline
Gulf spill is really a river of oil, environmentalists say
~"This isn't a spill," said Kerry St. Pe, who headed Louisiana's oil spill response team for 23 years. "This isn't a storage tank or a ship with a finite amount of oil that has boundaries. This is much, much worse. It's a river of oil flowing from the bottom of the Gulf at the rate of 210,000 gallons a day that officials say could be running for two months or more.
If that prediction holds, much of the state's southeastern coast will become a world-watched environmental battleground that hasn't been seen in the United States since the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska 21 years ago."
Louisiana fishers fear lasting damage to livelihoods from Gulf oil spill
Nobody Could Have Predicted
~Library Chronicles
Frozen in the Head Lights, Governor Jindal seems Powerless, plays Blame Game
~Gov. Bobby Jindal said this afternoon he has repeatedly asked BP, the Coast Guard and federal authorities for a plan about the number of people and resources that will be dedicated to combating the potentially devastating environmental impacts of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but as of Thursday afternoon he still had not received an answer.~Jindal asked the Defense Dept to pay for 6,000 members of the Louisiana National Guard to assist with the cleanup for at least 90 days. What? Or what?
Fuel smell wafts over N.O. area
~April 29th MODIS on NASA’s Terra satellite captured a natural-color image of the oil slick just off the Louisiana coast. ~NASA Earth Observatory
~It is advised that we should go get all the SEAFOOD we can fit in our kitchen since that will be Gone in a few days and after that for the foreseeable future in Louisiana.
Louisiana shrimpers sue BP over oil spill~Transocean and Halliburton also named as defendants~Hat Tweet~Gambit
~Hundreds of shrimping boats sail from here, dragging their nets around the inland estuaries and the rich seabed of the Gulf, which teems with white, pink and brown shrimp. Fishermen, commercial and recreational, scour the area for kingfish, red snapper and marlin. The Gulf region accounts for about a fifth of total U.S. commercial seafood production and nearly three-quarters of the nation's shrimp output, while nearly a third of all marine recreational fishing trips take place on Gulf waters, according to the Fisheries Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
"This is the Delta," said Robert Cossé, the marine division commander of Plaquemines Parish Sheriff's Office, while piloting a boat across the Pass-a-Loutre Wildlife Management Reserve. "Lots of life."
Gulf Coast oil spill could eclipse Exxon Valdez ~Forbes
~April 29th MODIS on NASA’s Terra satellite captured a natural-color image of the oil slick just off the Louisiana coast. ~NASA Earth Observatory~It is advised that we should go get all the SEAFOOD we can fit in our kitchen since that will be Gone in a few days and after that for the foreseeable future in Louisiana.
Louisiana shrimpers sue BP over oil spill~Transocean and Halliburton also named as defendants~Hat Tweet~Gambit
~Hundreds of shrimping boats sail from here, dragging their nets around the inland estuaries and the rich seabed of the Gulf, which teems with white, pink and brown shrimp. Fishermen, commercial and recreational, scour the area for kingfish, red snapper and marlin. The Gulf region accounts for about a fifth of total U.S. commercial seafood production and nearly three-quarters of the nation's shrimp output, while nearly a third of all marine recreational fishing trips take place on Gulf waters, according to the Fisheries Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
"This is the Delta," said Robert Cossé, the marine division commander of Plaquemines Parish Sheriff's Office, while piloting a boat across the Pass-a-Loutre Wildlife Management Reserve. "Lots of life."
Gulf Coast oil spill could eclipse Exxon Valdez ~Forbes
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